I am building an art installation for this year which is called the Turbinophone. It is an old fighter jet engine (J79) which is being repurposed into an interactive collaborative musical instrument. I just launched a Kickstarter to raise funding for it, and you can learn more about it here: http://kck.st/XnKzUa

Also it would be even more helpful if you could share this project with those on your social networks-because I believe that there is a genuine interest in getting a project like this out there, and it is just a matter of getting the word out to the right people! I made a page to make it easy for you to do that: http://www.turbinophone.com/share

The project is using only the compressor section of a J79 engine - so the engine is completely non-operational. It uses the resonance of the blades to create sound (which is far quieter than what most people expect from a jet engine).

Interesting fact I found out today: the J79 engine was used in land speed trials on the Black Rock Desert as the powerplant for some of the Spirit of America jet cars.

Makes me wonder how those cars handled the dunes and loose dust pockets on the playa while at those speeds

Look at the illustration again. Breedlove is almost tipping over, way out of control -- we are looking at the underside of the three-wheeled car. Note the "road sign" showing a 675 MPH sharp right turn. This is what happened.

The incident is sometimes referred to as the 675 MPH U-turn. The car suffered structural damage, but did not crash.